emo
\e.mo\
The verdict
“emo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,280) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,280
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme de punk hardcore caractérisée par des paroles expressives, éminemment politiques et axées sur la catharsis, l'expression de soi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emo · emo · French
emo · rank #39,280 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,280
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emballement
Nearest frequency peer: emballement (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « emo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- elf
elf
60,724 corpus weight
- emballement
emballement
60,722 corpus weight
- emo
emo
60,721 corpus weight
- enjoué
enjoué
60,720 corpus weight
- enracinement
enracinement
60,719 corpus weight
- entachée
entachée
60,718 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « emo » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.mo\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « emo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for emo is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "en", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \e.mo\. Frequency #39,280 among 3,255 “E” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
emo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "en", "Eu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is emo, spelled E-M-O.
Definition
- 1Forme de punk hardcore caractérisée par des paroles expressives, éminemment politiques et axées sur la catharsis, l'expression de soi.
- 2Personne qui apprécie la culture (musicale, vestimentaire, etc.) associée au mouvement emo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how emo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On y trouve tout l’attirail du parfait emo : des manteaux noirs aux pulls à rayures en passant par les mitaines – à rayures aussi, bien sûr -, les lacets colorés et les chaussures à damiers.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).